Welcome to your birth club! Moms from all over the country, and maybe even the world, who are due or trying to conceive for this month will gather here to talk about their pregnancy, birth, and baby with you! (Dads are welcome, too!)

A few things to get you started:

Birth Club Goal: Your birth club should be a place to share your journey, ask questions, and support each other. Treat other members with respect. You may disagree respectfully and your paths may be different, but you're all here because you care about your family. When in doubt, be kind.

Community Guidelines: These are the guidelines for the site that you agreed to when you created your account. Take a look and be sure your participation in all areas of our site conforms. http://www.babycenter.com/community-help-guidelines

Facebook and Privacy: Please do not use this group to advertise or solicit members for Facebook groups. This has turned into a big privacy issue in the past. If you wish to create a private place to connect with a smaller group of BabyCenter friends, click on this link to create your own group: http://community.babycenter.com/a/create/groups

If you need help creating your own group, you can ask your Big Sisters or Group Owners, or read the guide here: http://www.babycenter.com/community-help-howto#groups

Friends of BabyCenter: You'll find a link to this on the right-hand side of the page. Go here to talk about the site itself when you have questions, problems using the site, and so on. http://community.babycenter.com/groups/a45/friends_of_babycenter

Help: At the bottom of the page you'll see a link to Community Help, which leads to our help pages. There you'll find information about the Community staff, how to use your account, and – perhaps most important – a list of abbreviations commonly used in our Community, such as BFP, FF, BF, CD, and BD, not to mention DH, DD, and DS! Our Community Guidelines are linked to from there as well. http://www.babycenter.com/community-help

Group Owners: Your birth club starts off with two of our Staff members designated Group Owners, and it will be assigned Big Sisters soon. Big Sisters are experienced Group Owners who help guide the group at the beginning and give you an idea of what a Group Owner does. After your first trimester, you'll have an opportunity to volunteer to be a Group Owner and to vote for Group Owners from among birth club members.

Privacy on BabyCenter: Things posted in this birth club are publicly accessible. To find out more about protecting your privacy, look here: http://www.babycenter.com/community-help-privacy

There you go – you're all set. Enjoy your group and enjoy getting to know each other. Wishing a happy and healthy nine months to you all!

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